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I Am Not Chick Lit

Breaking news… got an SMS from the Real Jelly (she’s aliiiiiive!) about how she’s in Target, and saw our friend’s book for sale.

The book? “This Is Not Chick Lit”. The friend? Elizabeth (link to the right on blogroll). Oh so many feelings… pride! Go Beth! Sadness… are we the women in curlers roaming the aisles, picking up books, and we’re the demographic of those that buy our friends’ book, it’s true, and we shop at Target, (tar-jhay) and we are all of these things at once. Bit of an identity issue.

I’ve written about meeting up with now famous Beth a few months ago. I did the exact same thing with the Real Jelly- appetizers at Rose Pistola- and something lept out of my mouth totally without thinking.

Raising my Blue Paddle beer (because labels are important) we toasted to: “Some kind of 17 year-old fantasy of what our lives would be like now.”

In other news: I have my eye on a new black Macbook, ~~but waiting until later this week… to get the nice Core 2 that the Macbook Pro has~~. Buying it now! It’s already released! Why not the Pro? I want the small screen, baby.

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Nancy

At what point does the descriptive "chick" become derogatory? If it means writing by women, for women, that alone shouldn't earn it a critical classification.

It seems that when just women socialize, it's deemed 'chick talk', which I find funny, since I pretty much speak about the same subjects with my guy friends as I do with my women friends. In fact, more 'war of the sexes' talk gets dished with certain guy friends than between the girls.

All that aside, I'll check out the book. Anthologies of good fiction, they're right up my alley, whether penned by chicks or otherwise!
Congrats to your friend for scoring the shelfspace at Target, too. Maybe our demographic IS in there with avec curlers, but they're just as likely to be picking up motor oil as nail polish.